John Baldessari

Since God Nose in 1965, John Baldessari’s taste for noses has been established, and even if the artist has been masking faces with color dots for a long time, it is not so random to see this appendage popup in a different form by itself or accompanied by a pair of ears.
From a celebration of the senses to the question of identity and its complications (without forgetting the artist’s inherent interest in Magritte) we find here a number of themes and their significations which have come to inform his body of work.